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She was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling. ... [The nurse] She told me it was a girl, an so I turned my head away and wept. ... And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald)